ART 346 Z: Interactive Design

Building Usable Websites

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Focus on User

- design shapes user experience
- consider user's experience "moving through" the site
- avoid bad user experience by setting up logical structure and providing clear navigation

Information Design

- organize the information
- plan how users will find it
- information design process (inventory, organize, give structure)

Interface Design

- provides a way for users to get to information
- determine how structure will appear visually
- develop navigational tools

Navigation Design

- help visitor find their way around: where am i? where can i go from here?
- use standard navigational options
- clarity, consistency and effiency are fundamental
- incorporating navigational elements to help users move around site

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